Dorie Greenspan’s Around My French Table: more than 300 recipes from my home to yourswas gifted to me years ago from a family member, but it was not until recently that my husband and I began cooking regularly from this title. You know how you can find music and book reviews telling you whether to buy, borrow, or trash certain titles? This is one you want to first borrow from your library, and then buy to keep forever.

As I flip through this book to find page numbers for the recipes listed below, I am finding more than a handful of recipes I have yet to try and am mentally making a list of those I want to cook and bake this weekend. You cannot go wrong with any of Greenspan’s books, of which she has written over ten books, including those for which she was awarded the International Association of Culinary Professionals Cookbook of the Year Award and the James Beard Foundation Award.

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I am the Lawn & Garden and Cooking Neighborhood Librarian who also leads the "Bean There, Read That" book discussion for folks in their 20s and 30s, facilitates the "Master Gardener" series, and the "Cooking by the Book" series at Garfield Community Center.